Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die.

Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.